About me
Welcome! I am Alison. I provide a warm, welcoming and safe space in which to make the changes you want in your life. I feel passionately about my work and believe strongly in the transformational change that psychotherapy can bring to our lives.
I have a Masters degree in psychodynamic psychotherapy and have been a practising therapist for 20 years, combining private work with employment in various organisations including Cornwall College, Xenzone, Action for Children and Plymouth NHS Adult Mental Health Trust, where I worked with adults who had complex and long-term mental health needs. I am also a registered functional medicine practitioner, which allows me to also offer physiological and nutritional support to support mental health.
I specialise in supporting adults and young people with the following mental health problems including:
-Long term low mood or depression
-High levels of anxiety and panic attacks
-ADHD- and autism-related difficulties
-Eating difficulties or a very restricted diet
-Mental health difficulties connected with physical health conditions
-Anti-depressant medication withdrawal
-OCD-type difficulties
Psychodynamic psychotherapy is an evidence-based talking therapy that focuses primarily on increasing self-understanding and emotional awareness. It offers a space to explore how your past experiences might be influencing the way you see yourself, relate to others, and handle challenges today. We work together to identify patterns that are no longer serving you well and support you in reshaping negative internal working models of relationships that may have been formed long ago.
Many people who come to therapy are neurodivergent, yet neurodivergence is still often under-recognised in mainstream mental health settings.
I am also specifically trained to work with Autism and ADHD and offer support that brings together psychotherapy, nervous system support, and a functional medicine-informed approach, when required. Grounded in lived understanding, I take the time to celebrate the strengths alongside the struggles. Sessions are collaborative and shaped around what works best for you, with no expectation to communicate or engage in a particular way — they can be structured and goal-focused, or offer a slower, reflective space. We can adjust the pace and focus to suit your needs.
I work online and out of the Bird House Therapy Centre, a beautiful listed building in the centre of Falmouth in Cornwall. The link to the Bird House Therapy Centre is www.birdhousefalmouth.co.uk.
Getting started
The relationship between the therapist and client is crucially important and inevitably impacts the effectiveness of the therapy. I offer the initial 50 minute consultation free of charge, to give you an opportunity to meet me, ask questions, and get a feel for whether we might be able to work well together.
I look forward to hearing from you.
For more information about Functional Medicine Support, please see my website www.alisonfoxtherapy.co.uk.
Training, qualifications & experience
QUALIFICATIONS
- MSc Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Exeter University
- Post Graduate Diploma in Counselling Children and Adolescents
- Certificate in working with ADHD - Aspire Counselling Agency
- Training in Functional and Integrative Medicine for ADHD - Psychiatry Redefined
- Certificate in working with Autism - Aspire Counselling Agency
- Graduate Diploma in Integrative Function Nutrition, Institute of Optimum Nutrition, London.
- Fellowship in Nutritional Psychiatry - Psychiatry Redefined
I am an accredited member of the BACP (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy), registered with BANT (British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine) and the CNHC (Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council), and a member of the Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM).
I hold full professional insurance and am bound by a strict Code of Conduct, Performance and Ethics through both BACP and BANT.
Member organisations
school Registered / Accredited
Being registered/accredited with a professional body means an individual must have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by their member organisation.
BACP is one of the UK’s leading professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy with around 60,000 members. The Association has several different categories of membership, including Student Member, Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP, Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Accred) and Senior Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Snr Acccred). Registered and accredited members are listed on the BACP Register, which shows that they have demonstrated BACP’s recommended standards for training, proficiency and ethical practice. The BACP Register was the first register of psychological therapists to be accredited by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA). Accredited and senior accredited membership are voluntary categories for members who choose to undertake a rigorous application and assessment process to demonstrate additional standards around practice, training and supervision. Individual members will have completed an appropriate counselling or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but they won’t appear on the BACP Register until they've demonstrated that they meet the standards for registration. Student members are still in the process of completing their training. All members are bound by the BACP Ethical Framework and a Professional Conduct Procedure.
Accredited register membership
The Accredited Register Scheme was set up in 2013 by the Department of Health (DoH) as a way to recognise organisations that hold voluntary registers which meet certain standards. These standards are set by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Fees
£70.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
If you have any questions please email me in confidence and I will get back to you as soon as I can. I offer a free introductory consultation session.
My work days in private practice are Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
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